[rlmorel]

Hahahahaha...the scene in Top Gun where they are having the argument in the locker room, they get nose to nose, and Val Kilmer's character says "I don't like you because you're dangerous." and Tom Cruise's character responds "That's right, Ice...Man...I am dangerous."

Val Kilmer, chewing gum, shoves his face forward, snaps his mouth shut, and hisses an intake of air showing his top front teeth.

I don't know why, but that facial gesture, that odd, snapping of his jaws shut and the hiss of air, like an angry, venomous snake, of all Val Kilmer's in the movie, is the one that sticks out to me!

His role in Tombstone was far, far more interesting and gave him a wider latitude, but that scene in Top Gun is the one from that movie that was memorable for me.

[packrat35]

Let’s face it, he got to chew the scenery big time and stole the movie.

[ro_dreaming]

Val’s intake and snake hiss, per the stories, was not in the script nor rehearsed. It was a Julliard trained actor, who just did it.

Or so I’ve heard. I might be wrong.